I’ll admit it—since last week’s game was at 83 o’clock Western Poutine Time (WPT), I didn’t watch any of it. That being said, I’m not upset that I missed it. The Canucks scored early and never looked back. Elias Pettersson scored on his first ever penalty shot (because firsts-ever against the Preds are automatic). Pekka Rinne was chased from the game. It was an incredibly inauspicious start to the Predators' brief Canadian road trip, which followed through to their next game (also a loss, to the Flames).
The Preds have since bounced back with a fundamentally sound win over the Ottawa Senators, though the Senators were playing so few recognizable players that Twitter was digging pretty deep into the joke well.